Publications
The following publications were published exclusively under the affiliation of the Max Planck Society. For publications by the principal investigator outside of the Max Planck Society, see the links on the lower left.
Publications by the Vingron Lab
Preprints
2024
Comparative single-cell analyses reveal evolutionary repurposing of a conserved gene program in bat wing development. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2024)
Reporter CRISPR screens decipher cis- and trans-regulatory principles at the Xist locus. bioRxiv (2024)
Enhancer adoption by an LTR retrotransposon generates viral-like particles causing developmental limb phenotypes. bioRxiv (2024)
2019
Functional dissection of TADs reveals non-essential and instructive roles in regulating gene expression. bioRxiv (2019)
Published
2025
Modeling the impact of double X-dosage on pluripotency maintenance in mouse embryonic stem cells. Dissertation (2025)
2024
151 (22), Article dev202777 (2024)
Hepatocyte differentiation requires anisotropic expansion of bile canaliculi. Development
Comparative single-cell analyses reveal evolutionary repurposing of a conserved gene program in bat wing development. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2024)
25 (1), Article 265 (2024)
Graphasing: phasing diploid genome assembly graphs with single-cell strand sequencing. Genome Biology: Biology for the Post-Genomic Era
Reporter CRISPR screens decipher cis- and trans-regulatory principles at the Xist locus. bioRxiv (2024)
6 (4), Article lqae135 (2024)
scATAcat: cell-type annotation for scATAC-seq data. NAR: genomics and bioinformatics 31 (10), pp. 1625 - 1639 (2024)
TET activity safeguards pluripotency throughout embryonic dormancy. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
Enhancer adoption by an LTR retrotransposon generates viral-like particles causing developmental limb phenotypes. bioRxiv (2024)
26 (8), pp. 1309 - 1321 (2024)
An activity-specificity trade-off encoded in human transcription factors. Nature Cell Biology
Correspondence analysis based biclustering and joint visualization of cells and genes for single cell transcriptomic data. Dissertation (2024)
Machine Learning for Cancer Survival Prediction. Dissertation (2024)
Copy number variation characterization using nanopore sequencing. Dissertation (2024)
52 (13), Article e57 (2024)
CAbiNet: joint clustering and visualization of cells and genes for single-cell transcriptomics. Nucleic Acids Research 27 (4), Article 109386 (2024)
Modeling gene expression cascades during cell state transitions. iScience
Conservation of Regulatory Elements with Highly Diverged Sequences Across Large Evolutionary Distances. bioRxiv (2024)
Exploring feature identification and machine learning in predicting protein-protein interactions of disordered proteins. Dissertation (2024)
17 (2), pp. 277 - 296 (2024)
Haplotype-based phylogenetic analysis and population genomics uncover the origin and domestication of sweetpotato. Molecular Plant 26 (2), pp. 181 - 193 (2024)
FOXO1-mediated lipid metabolism maintains mammalian embryos in dormancy. Nature Cell Biology
Association Plots – A Method to Detect Tissue-Specific Regulatory Patterns? Master (2024)
Mathematical Modeling of High-Risk Viral Mutations. Master (2024)
Adding 3D chromatin structure information to enhancer- target prediction with CENTRE. Master (2024)
Genotyping tandem repeats: Introducing Tandem Twister, a rapid and universal tool for long-read sequencing technologies. Master (2024)
2023
39 (11), btad687 (2023)
CENTRE: a gradient boosting algorithm for Cell-type-specific ENhancer-Target pREdiction. Bioinformatics 26 (9), 107405 (2023)
Fluid shear stress-modulated chromatin accessibility reveals the mechano-dependency of endothelial SMAD1/5-mediated gene transcription. iScience 72 (4), pp. 1023 - 1040 (2023)
Association Plots: visualizing cluster-specific associations in high-dimensional correspondence analysis biplots. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society - Series C: Applied Statistics 39 (6), btad364 (2023)
IsoTools: a flexible workflow for long-read transcriptome sequencing analysis. Bioinformatics 24 (1), 131 (2023)
Hierarchical Interleaved Bloom Filter: enabling ultrafast, approximate sequence queries. Genome Biology: Biology for the Post-Genomic Era
Dissecting regional heterogeneity and modeling transcriptional cascades in brain organoids. Dissertation, vii, 129 pp. (2023)
55 (5), pp. 746 - 752 (2023)
Maximum likelihood pandemic-scale phylogenetics. Nature Genetics 14 (1), 2034 (2023)
Enhancer hijacking at the ARHGAP36 locus is associated with connective tissue to bone transformation. Nature Communications
A Multi-Omics Analysis of Transcription Control by BRD4. Dissertation, ix, 205 pp. (2023)
91 (7), pp. 980 - 990 (2023)
Prediction of protein–protein interactions using sequences ofintrinsically disordered regions. Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 19 (2), e1009894 (2023)
AI reveals insights into link between CD33 and cognitive impairment in Alzheimer’s Disease. PLOS Computational Biology 150 (17), dev201562 (2023)
Induction of kidney-related gene programs through co-option of SALL1 in mole ovotestes. Development 2022
82 (6), pp. 1930 - 1952 (2022)
Modularity Maximization for Graphons. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics 9 (11), 221131 (2022)
Quantifying the 'end of history' through a Bayesian Markov-chain approach. Royal Society Open Science
Deciphering cellular heterogeneity by single-cell transcriptome analysis. Dissertation, xiii, 131 pp. (2022)
Computational interpretation of disease-causing, structural, and non-coding human genetic variants. Dissertation, 118 pp. (2022)
Analysis of the determinants of Pol II pausing. Dissertation, vi, 125 pp. (2022)
13 (1), 6470 (2022)
Integration of Hi-C with short and long-read genome sequencing reveals the structure of germline rearranged genomes. Nature Communications
Co-option of the transcription factor SALL1 in mole ovotestis formation. bioRxiv, 514220 (2022)
185 (20), pp. 3689 - 3704 (2022)
Repression and 3D-restructuring resolves regulatory conflicts in evolutionarily rearranged genomes. Cell
Dynamical Aspects of the Evolution of Segmental Duplications in the Human Genome. Dissertation, xiii, 129 pp. (2022)
Association Plots visualize cluster-specific genes from high-dimensional transcriptomics data. Dissertation, vi, 108 pp. (2022)
29 (7), pp. 601 - 615 (2022)
Michael Waterman's Contributions to Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. Journal of Computational Biology 32 (7), Article 073108 (2022)
Topological data analysis of truncated contagion maps. Chaos 54 (7), pp. 1037 - 1050 (2022)
Multiomic atlas with functional stratification and developmental dynamics of zebrafish cis-regulatory elements. Nature Genetics 24 (6), pp. 981 - 995 (2022)
Enhanced cortical neural stem cell identity through short SMAD and WNT inhibition in human cerebral organoids facilitates emergence of outer radial glial cells. Nature Cell Biology 38 (10), pp. 2683 - 2691 (2022)
Deep learning identifies and quantifies recombination hotspot determinants. Bioinformatics 434 (11), 167525 (2022)
Visualizing Cluster-specific Genes from Single-cell Transcriptomics Data Using Association Plots. Journal of Molecular Biology 23 (1), 67 (2022)
TADA – a Machine Learning Tool for Functional Annotation based Prioritisation of Putative Pathogenic CNVs. Genome Biology
An Unsupervised Learning Approach For Understanding Biases In Structural Variant Detection. Master (2022)
2021
3 (2), 100414 (2021)
Effect of imputation on gene network reconstruction from single-cell RNA-seq data. Patterns 49 (21), pp. 12178 - 12195 (2021)
Assessing genome-wide dynamic changes in enhancer activity during early mESC differentiation by FAIRE-STARR-seq. Nucleic Acids Research (London) 40 (24), e105862 (2021)
RIF1 and KAP1 differentially regulate the choice of inactive versus active X chromosomes. The EMBO Journal 3 (4), lqab095 (2021)
Quantifying the tissue-specific regulatory information within enhancer DNA sequences. NAR: genomics and bioinformatics 108 (9), pp. 1725 - 1734 (2021)
Position effects at the FGF8 locus are associated with femoral hypoplasia. The American Journal of Human Genetics 220 (10), e202103003 (2021)
Anisotropic expansion of hepatocyte lumina enforced by apical bulkheads. The Journal of Cell Biology: JCB 22 (1), 191 (2021)
A trans locus causes a ribosomopathy in hypertrophic hearts that affects mRNA translation in a protein length-dependent fashion. Genome Biology 49 (8), pp. 4402 - 4420 (2021)
Conserved DNA sequence features underlie pervasive RNA polymerase pausing. Nucleic Acids Research (London) 28 (6), pp. 560 - 569 (2021)
Computing Leapfrog Regularization Paths with Applications to Large-Scale K-mer Logistic Regression. Journal of Computational Biology
Network Propagation with Node Core for Genotype-Phenotype Associations and Module Identification. Dissertation, xii, 161 pp. (2021)
Computational Approaches for the Prediction of Gene Regulatory Elements and the Analysis of their Evolutionary Conservation. Dissertation, vii, 155 pp. (2021)
592 (7852), pp. 93 - 98 (2021)
Non-coding deletions identify Maenli lncRNA as a limb-specific En1 regulator. Nature
Structural variant calling using third-generation sequencing data. Dissertation, xiii, 139 pp. (2021)
2020
36 (22-23), pp. 5519 - 5521 (2020)
SVIM-asm: structural variant detection from haploid and diploid genome assemblies. Bioinformatics 370 (6513), pp. 208 - 214 (2020)
The mole genome reveals regulatory rearrangements associated with adaptive intersexuality. Science 106 (6), pp. 872 - 884 (2020)
Hi-C Identifies Complex Genomic Rearrangements and TAD-Shuffling in Developmental Diseases. The American Journal of Human Genetics 16 (5), e1007843 (2020)
Ranbow: A fast and accurate method for polyploid haplotype reconstruction. PLOS Computational Biology 36 (12), pp. 3687 - 3692 (2020)
GenMap: Ultra-fast Computation of Genome Mappability. Bioinformatics 27 (4), pp. 442 - 457 (2020)
ModHMM: A Modular Supra-Bayesian Genome Segmentation Method. Journal of Computational Biology 11 (2), e03155-19 (2020)
A MicroRNA Network Controls Legionella pneumophila Replication in Human Macrophages via LGALS8 and MX1. mBio 12 (1), 71 (2020)
Single-Cell Analysis Uncovers a Vast Diversity in Intracellular Viral Defective Interfering RNA Content Affecting the Large Cell-to-Cell Heterogeneity in Influenza A Virus Replication. Viruses
Heuristic Approaches To Conditional Independence Test Using Partial Distance Correlation. Master (2020)
2019
20 (1), 227 (2019)
CRUP: a comprehensive framework to predict condition-specific regulatory units. Genome Biology: Biology for the Post-Genomic Era 35 (17), pp. 2907 - 2915 (2019)
SVIM: Structural Variant Identification using Mapped Long Reads. Bioinformatics 26 (8), pp. 846 - 865 (2019)
DNA Motif Match Statistics Without Poisson Approximation. Journal of Computational Biology 51 (8), pp. 1263 - 1271 (2019)
Functional dissection of the Sox9-Kcnj2 locus identifies nonessential and instructive roles of TAD architecture. Nature Genetics
De novo and haplotype assembly of polyploid genomes. Dissertation, vii, 157 pp. (2019)
178 (1), pp. 242 - 260 (2019)
The Translational Landscape of the Human Heart. Cell
Enhancer Prediction Based on Epigenomic Data. Dissertation, iv, 186 pp. (2019)
116 (25), pp. 12390 - 12399 (2019)
Preformed Chromatin Topology Assists Transcriptional Robustness of Shh during Limb Development. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 15 (5), e8339 (2019)
Linking aberrant chromatin features in chronic lymphocytic leukemia to transcription factor networks. Molecular Systems Biology
Approximate String Matching: Improving Data Structures and Algorithms. Dissertation, 175 pp. (2019)
20 (1), 157 (2019)
Predicting enhancers in mammalian genomes using supervised hidden Markov models. BMC Bioinformatics 35 (6), pp. 1009 - 1017 (2019)
The Distance Precision Matrix: computing networks from non-linear relationships. Bioinformatics
Functional dissection of TADs reveals non-essential and instructive roles in regulating gene expression. bioRxiv (2019)
21 (3), pp. 305 - 310 (2019)
Serial genomic inversions induce tissue-specific architectural stripes, gene misexpression and congenital malformations. Nature Cell Biology 2018
23 (6), pp. 900 - 904 (2018)
Esrrb Unlocks Silenced Enhancers for Reprogramming to Naive Pluripotency - Correction. Cell Stem Cell 16 (1), 138 (2018)
Classifying human promoters by occupancy patterns identifies recurring sequence elements, combinatorial binding, and spatial interactions. BMC Biology 14 (11), e1007793 (2018)
Synthetic STARR-seq reveals how DNA shape and sequence modulate transcriptional output and noise. PLoS Genetics 50 (10), pp. 1463 - 1473 (2018)
Dynamic 3D chromatin architecture determines enhancer specificity and morphogenetic identity in limb development. Nature Genetics 24 (10), pp. 2784 - 2794 (2018)
Dynamics of Transcription Regulation in Human Bone Marrow Myeloid Differentiation to Mature Blood Neutrophils. Cell Reports 14 (8), e1006372 (2018)
coTRaCTE predicts co-occurring transcription factors within cell-type specific enhancers. PLoS Computational Biology 23 (2), pp. 266 - 275 (2018)
Esrrb Unlocks Silenced Enhancers for Reprogramming to Naive Pluripotency. Cell Stem Cell 10 (1), 10:55 (2018)
Epigenomic profiling of non-small cell lung cancer xenografts uncover LRP12 DNA methylation as predictive biomarker for carboplatin resistance. Genome Medicine
Efficient Sparse-Group Bayesian Feature Selection for Gene Network Reconstruction. Dissertation, Freie Universität, Berlin (2018)
50 (5), pp. 662 - 667 (2018)
Polymer physics predicts the effects of structural variants on chromatin architecture. Nature Genetics 46 (6), pp. 2868 - 2882 (2018)
Genomic dissection of enhancers uncovers principles of combinatorial regulation and dynamic wiring of enhancer-promoter contacts. Nucleic Acids Research (London)